…created “Renaissance charter schools.” Renaissance schools are a fusion of charter schools and traditional district schools, in which failing district schools are reorganized as charter schools and operated by independent…

…Resolving Disputes and Communicating with Schools. Tool #3 29 TOOL 3 Resolving Disputes and Communicating with Schools When Parents and Schools Disagree… Parent: “The school is telling me my child…

…Special Education Students Served in Public Schools in Philadelphia (By Type of Disability) Target for Charter Schools Target for District Schools 3 Federal elementary grades, but less 3 For this…

…https://www.philly.com/news/glen-mills-schools-boys-removed-pennsylvania-dhs-20190325.html https://www.philly.com/news/glen-mills-schools-abuse-investigation-inspector-general-pennsylvania-dhs-20190319.html 4/11/2019 At Glen Mills Schools, boys are beaten, then silenced https://www.philly.com/crime/a/glen-mills-schools-pa-abuse-juvenile-investigation-20190220.html 6/25 ST. PETERSBURG TIMES C.D. Ferrainola, executive director from 1975 through 2007, built Glen Mills into an…

…list of charter schools and cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s website at: www.pde.state.pa.us/ charter_schools/site/default.asp (click on “Where Are They?”). and conditions the student must…

achieving extensive and diverse benefits by strengthening public education. These benefits are more likely to be achieved in communities with quality schools. But improving local schools is often much more…

…environments. http://www.elc-pa.org/ 2 II. RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS a. Introduction Approximately 1.3 million students enrolled in U.S. public preschools, elementary schools, middle and high schools…

…II. RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS a. Introduction Approximately 1.3 million students enrolled in U.S. public preschools, elementary schools, middle and high schools experienced homelessness during…

…guidance counselors in any of its 80 elementary schools. Current counselors divide their time across multiple schools, visiting different schools on different days. And in 2012, William Penn reduced social…

…Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, Inc. 29 3. Benefits to all students; and 4. Benefits to students eligible for special education and their families. Benefits to school districts and the state…

…classroom because: 10 http://pattan.net-website.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2011/11/21/SuplmntAids_Svcs_1111.pdf 11 http://pattan.net-website.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2014/01/06/AnnIEP_RevPBA_ACC1213.pdf 57 http://pattan.net-website.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2011/11/21/SuplmntAids_Svcs_1111.pdf http://pattan.net-website.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2014/01/06/AnnIEP_RevPBA_ACC1213.pdf http://pattan.net-website.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2011/11/21/SuplmntAids_Svcs_1111.pdf http://pattan.net-website.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2014/01/06/AnnIEP_RevPBA_ACC1213.pdf • the child cannot do the same work at the same level as the other children in the regular…

in U.S. public preschools, elementary schools, middle and high schools experienced homelessness during the 2012-13 school year. This is an 8% increase from the prior year and the highest number…

…or an “on-grounds” school is critically important. On-grounds schools are generally licensed as private academic schools and are not required to comply with the same academic standards as public schools…

classroom. Importance for Schools All schools and educators work with children who have experienced trauma, but you may not know who these students are. Schools have an important role to…

…New York Times, May 14. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15alexander.html. 38 Century Foundation. (2016). The Benefits of Socioeconomically and Racially Integrated Schools and Classrooms. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/production.tcf.org/app/uploads/2016/02/13201842/ Benefits_Factsheet.pdf. See also Card, D. and Rothstein. (2006). Racial…

…be truly equitable, schools serving large numbers of high-needs students require more resources than schools that do not. Yet Pennsylvania’s current school funding scheme currently provides the exact opposite. As…

…be truly equitable, schools serving large numbers of high-needs students require more resources than schools that do not. Yet Pennsylvania’s current school funding scheme currently provides the exact opposite. As…